Direc­tory tex-archive/fonts/bookhands/pgothic

Prescius Gothic. The pgoth fonts TBD
The pgothic and allpgoth packages provide Metafont fonts based on the
Gothic Textura Prescius vel sine pedibus manuscript book-hand used
from the 13th century AD. The font consists of majuscules, minuscules
and digits, with some appropriate period punctuation marks.
Both normal and bold versions are provided.
This is one in a series of manuscript fonts.
Access to the docmfp package is desireable but not essential.
The distribution consists of the following files:
README (this file)
pgothic.ins
pgothic.dtx
tryfont.tex
allfont.tex
The distribution is provided under the terms of the LaTeX
Project Public License (LPPL).
To install the package:
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o run: latex pgothic.ins, which will generate:
pgoth*.mf files
*.fd files
pgothic.sty
allpgoth.sty
o Move the generated files to locations where LaTeX will find them.
For example: the pgoth*.mf files to .../texmf/fonts/source/public/pgothic
the *.fd and *.sty files to /texmf/tex/latex/local/pgothic
On a teTeX distribution you might also have to add lines like the
following to texmf/fontname/special.map:
pgoth7.mf public pgothic
pgoth10.mf public pgothic
pgoth17.mf public pgothic
pgothb7.mf public pgothic
pgothb10.mf public pgothic
pgothb17.mf public pgothic
On a teTeX distribution remember to run texhash after moving the files.
(I use a teTeX distribution and found that if I didn't add to the special.map
file, then the generated tfm and pk files were put in directories corresponding
to some vendor's font.)
Other LaTeX distributions might require procedures similar to those for teTeX.
To typeset the documentation:
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o run: latex pgothic.dtx
o if you want an index then run: makeindex -s gind.ist pgothic
o run: latex pgothic.dtx
o Print pgothic.dvi for a hardcopy of the package manual
Note that the docmfp package is normally required for LaTeXing pgothic.dtx.
The package is available from CTAN in tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported.
If you haven't got this and don't want to get it, then there are instructions
in the first part of the .dtx file about how to edit it to avoid the use of docmfp.
(docmfp is an extension of the doc package for describing METAFONT, or other
non-LaTeX, code.)
To check out your installation:
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o run: latex tryfont for a testpage of the fonts
o run: latex allfont for a document typeset with the fonts
2002/12/30
Peter Wilson
peter.r.wilson@boeing.com

The pgothic and allp­goth pack­ages pro­vide METAFONT fonts based
on the Gothic Tex­tura Prescisus vel sine ped­ibus manuscript
book-hand used from the 13th cen­tury AD. The font con­sists of
ma­jus­cules, mi­nus­cules, and dig­its, with
some ap­pro­pri­ate pe­riod punc­tu­a­tion marks and lig­a­tures. Both
nor­mal and bold ver­sions are pro­vided.

This is one of a
set of manuscript fonts.
Ac­cess to the docmfp pack­age is
de­sir­able but not es­sen­tial to com­pile the pack­age doc­u­men­ta­tion.